Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 『Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose
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A vibraphone is a jazz instrument that was invented around 1920. It's a percussion instrument, so a musician must beat or strike it to make sounds. It looks a little like a xylophone and has tuned metal bars that a player hits with felt or
Continue reading >>The terms race and hillbilly were used by the American music industry from the early 1920s until the late 1940s to classify and advertise southern music.
Continue reading >>working within a set of forms inherited from 19th-century popular music and influenced by the craze for ragtime and jazz music, wrote some of the period’s most influential and commercially successful songs.
Continue reading >>Jazz music was the anthem for the first well-defined American youth culture. Rebelling against the horrors of mechanized warfare and the straitlaced morality of the 19th century.
Continue reading >>Popular music both shaped and reflected American culture throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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